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Intro Econ 4: Scarcity & Pistachios

Planet Money Summer School

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The Impact of Externalities on Others

When I think about externalities, I think about side effects. These are the side effects on people who are neither the buyers or sellers in a transaction. So everyone should listen for this concept of externalities. That's the impact the decision has on other people. As we listen to a planet money story from 2015 called The Bottom of the Well.

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